Through one politician's cowardice, an entire family become embroiled in a web of deceit and guilt.
The plot is simple. A politician responsible for killing someone in a hit and run accident convinces his long time driver to take the rap and in return promises to look after the man's wife and son while he serves the nine month prison sentence. The title refers to the proverbial refusal to see, hear or speak evil and the central characters are soon caught up in a tangle of mistrust, deceit and betrayal. Classic film noir then but the European (or more accurately Turkish) art-cinema variation. The storytelling is slippery and elliptical. Most of the main events take place unseen off camera - the audience sees the results and is left to add two and two. The mood is claustrophobic, brooding and desperate but shot through with black humour - one running gag involves a mobile ring tone with the lyrics 'I hope despair is always at your door'. Most remarkable is the look of the film - the desaturated colour palette shot through with occasional reds, the shadowy interiors and dramatic skylines, the way scenes are composed and the actors 'arranged' is painterly and undeniably beautiful.
As the film builds it moves from film noir to something closer to classical tragedy and if the ending feels less than satisfying there is no denying the power and beauty of the images that linger long after the credits.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film tells the story of a family blown apart by lies and non-communication. When Servet (Ercan Kesal), a politician involved in a car accident, asks his driver Eyup (Yavoz Bingol) to take the rap - a short jail sentence - in return for a financial reward, the driver's wife Hacer (Hatice Aslan) and teenage son Ismail (Ritaf Sungar) are inevitably affected by Eyup's decision to take the money. Wishing to help her son, Hacer approaches Servet for an advance, and soon gets more involved with him than she bargained for. Before long, all four characters find themselves trapped in a tangled web of guilt and deceit... Age Rating: 15
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film tells the story of a family blown apart by lies and non-communication. When Servet (Ercan Kesal), a politician involved in a car accident, asks his driver Eyup (Yavoz Bingol) to take the rap - a short jail sentence - in return for a financial reward, the driver's wife Hacer (Hatice Aslan) and teenage son Ismail (Ritaf Sungar) are inevitably affected by Eyup's decision to take the money. Wishing to help her son, Hacer approaches Servet for an advance, and soon gets more involved with him than she bargained for. Before long, all four characters find themselves trapped in a tangled web of guilt and deceit...
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